Unsustainable empire : alternative histories of Hawaiʻi statehood / / Dean Itsuji Saranillio

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910765435503321
• Autore: Saranillio Dean Itsuji <1979->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2018
• ISBN: 1-4780-9405-2; 1-4780-0229-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (313 pages)
• Disciplina: 996.9/04
• Soggetti: Statehood (American politics); Hawaiians - Political activity; Hawaii Politics and government 1900-1959; Hawaii Politics and government 1959-; Hawaii History 1900-1959; Hawaii History 1959-
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: A future wish : Hawaiʻi at the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition -- The courage to speak : disrupting haole hegemony at the 1937 congressional statehood hearings -- "Something indefinable would be lost" : the unruly kamokila and go for broke! -- The propaganda of occupation : statehood and the Cold War -- Alternative futures beyond the settler state.
• Sommario/riassunto: In Unsustainable Empire Dean Itsuji Saranillio offers a bold challenge to conventional understandings of Hawai‘i’s admission as a U.S. state. Hawai‘i statehood is popularly remembered as a civil rights victory against racist claims that Hawai‘i was undeserving of statehood because it was a largely non-white territory. Yet Native Hawaiian opposition to statehood has been all but forgotten. Saranillio tracks these disparate stories by marshaling a variety of unexpected genres and archives: exhibits at world's fairs, political cartoons, propaganda films, a multimillion-dollar hoax on Hawai‘i’s tourism industry, water struggles, and stories of hauntings, among others. Saranillio shows that statehood was neither the expansion of U.S. democracy nor a ; strong nation swallowing a weak and feeble island nation, but the result of a U.S. nation whose economy was unsustainable without enacting a more aggressive policy of imperialism. With clarity and persuasive force about historically and ethically complex issues, Unsustainable Empire provides a more complicated understanding of Hawai‘i’s admission as the fiftieth state and why Native Hawaiian place-based alternatives to U.S. empire are urgently needed.